Lets go on living
Living in Texas, I have always loved the song “wild horses” but recently I have decided to take issue with the lyrics.
The one line in particular that has bothered me all along was the line “lets go on living, after we die”. As my friend Joe would say, “what the Pho”.
Um no, just no, not gonna accept or go along with those lyrics, no matter how dramatic the song tries to make itself.
I have always liked music but did not really pay much attention to the lyrics, and I thought that the song was about people…. and of course wild horses…like Misty of Chincoteague. But now that I am paying attention to words, and the manipulation of words, I think that the “graceless lady” is perhaps supposed to be about “mother nature”. And the song wants HER to live, and wants us to die. OH BROTHER. No thank you wild horses song, from all us in Texas.
Does the “graceless lady” even know who WE are? And isn’t Grace, something beautiful …A Gift from God, and also something that is applied to mankind, and really is not about nature at all?
Grace means that God is watching his universe, and is supplying what is needed. Grace means that there is no need to worry when we live like little children and enjoy the bounty because God is not limited and that is what the bible tells us to do.
So as I ran this morning and listened to songs saying words I do not agree with, and some that played songs I love and want to add verses, here is what I rewrote first, and second, two great songs that I added verses to.
“wild forces”
Innocent living
God made Us to be
Things songs say you needed
Are not what you see
Grace makes a lady
And grace makes a man
You know that God holds you
In the palm of his hands
Wild horses
Better drag IT away
Greater forces
Are right here at play
Nature won’t suffer
And does not know pain
And God has decided
Your loss is my gain
S.E.W. up the exits
no fiche on the lines
Respectfully twitter
W.H.O.’s trolls are all blind
Wild horses
Better drag IT away
Greater forces
Are right here at play
God is who made us
What is good is the truth
Inalienable freedoms
God helps us be sleuth
Faith has been spoken
ANd like bees in a hive
We serve while we’re living
so glad we’re alive
Wild horses
Better drag IT away
Greater forces
Are right here at play
Wicheta Lineman added verses =)
I am a cowboy in the county
And I ride the back roads
Searching in the scrubs for the border overloads
[Chorus 1]
If your flat please change the tire
If you cant help then please don’t whine
The border’s our line, man
And God’s on the line
I know W.H.O. wants more paid vacation
But there’s nothing to gain
and we all know that stretch down south
IS bucking under the strain
[Chorus 2]
And they pay you so they own you
Think they own you for all time
But the border’s our line man
And God’s on the line
Restart, Newsboys added verses
I am riding, in the saddle
I am floating, wheel is my paddle
in my car, gun the motor
forget the brakes, even the rotors
[Pre-Chorus]
Because your love revealed the lies
Drew a map, caught all the spies
I clap my hands, snap to the beat
I keep my eyes, eyes on the street
Singing “Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh”
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
[Chorus]
Oh Lord you done turned up the heat
Found the armies, brought back the fleets
Never lost, just doing my part
And You came along, and You hit the restart
Cuz you came along, and you hit the restart
[Post-Chorus]
You, You, You hit the restart
You, You, You hit the restart
You, You, You hit the restart
You came along, and You hit the restart
[Verse]
Cain was twisted, messed up his brother
Greedy and bitter, one to another
Lived the curse, can’t farm the land
Dead in the desert, stuck in the sand
[Pre-Chorus]
Because your love revealed the lies
Drew a map, caught all the spies
I clap my hands, snap to the beat
I keep my eyes, eyes on the street
Singing “Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh”
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
[Chorus]
Oh Lord you done turned up the heat
Found the armies, brought back the fleets
Never lost, just doing my part
And You came along, and You hit the restart
Cuz you came along, and you hit the restart
[Post-Chorus]
You, You, You hit the restart
You, You, You hit the restart
You, You, You hit the restart
You came along, and You hit the restart
Restart, restart, oh, oh-oh
Restart, restart, oh, oh-oh
I was lost, I was fallin’ apart
But You came along, and You hit the restart
[Bridge]
You make all things new
That’s just what You do
You’re making me new
You make all things new
That’s just what You do
You’re making me new (You came along)
(And You hit the restart…)
(Restart)